The highly anticipated Signature Art Prize 2025 is now open for submissions, inviting emerging artists to showcase their distinctive creative style at the start of their professional careers.

  
Established by Gallery Directors Isobel Beauchamp and Elinor Olisa, the Signature Art Prize was founded to identify and celebrate the unique ‘Signature Style’ of early-career artists. They define an artist’s ‘signature style’ as being “that which makes an artist unique; a combination of process and method, contributed to by the artist’s own personality which results in a piece that is unique and specific to them.” With their extensive experience in the contemporary art market, Beauchamp and Olisa are dedicated to nurturing artistic individuality and supporting new talent.

  
Those who visit university degree shows will be aware of the remarkable talent and high standards on show; The Signature Art Prize aims to capture this energy and assist young artists in exhibiting and promoting their work in an often challenging art world. 

  
Previous winners have gone on to achieve great success and industry acclaim, with their artwork being included in public collections as well as having the opportunity to showcase in stunning locations.​

  
The deadline for submissions is 25 February 2025.

  
For further details and to apply, please visit www.signatureartprize.com.

Selected finalists will be invited to participate in the Signature Art Prize Gala Exhibition in June 2025, where they will have the opportunity to present their work in a prestigious gallery setting. In addition to gallery representation, winners will receive prizes generously provided by our sponsors and the opportunity to take part in a month-long artist residency in a central London studio.

Open For Entries | The Signature Art Prize 14th Edition

Submissions for Jackson’s Art Prize 2025 are now open!

  
Now celebrating its tenth year, Jackson’s internationally renowned art prize continues to recognise the work of hundreds of fine artists year after year. Artists working in painting, drawing, and printmaking, of all ages and abilities are encouraged to enter up to five artworks.

  
This year sees 23 awards, an exciting Guest Judging Panel, an extended longlist and shortlist, more recognised entries than ever

Entry fee rises from 6.50£ to 7£ after the early bird entry rate.

There are 23 awards to be won, including eight Material Awards sponsored by notable brands, a Student and Amateur Award, the People’s Choice Award, six Judge’s Choice Awards selected by our Guest Judging Panel, and five Jackson’s Choice Awards and the First Prize selected by the Jackson’s Judging Panel.

First Prize

* £6,000
* £2,000 Jackson’s art materials
* A filmed interview in your studio
* An invitation to sit on the Guest Judging Panel for 2026
* Exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair
* Exhibited at Bankside Gallery

Judge’s Choice Awards (x 6)

* £1,000 Jackson’s art materials
* Invited to exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair
* Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery

Jackson’s Choice Awards (x 5)

* £1,000 Jackson’s art materials
* Invited to exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair
* Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery

People’s Choice Award

* £1,000 Jackson’s art materials
* Invited to exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair
* Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery

Student Award and Amateur Award

* £500 Jackson’s art materials
* Invited to exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair
* Invited to exhibit at Bankside Gallery

Jackson’s Art Prize 2025

The Images Vevey Book Award is a grant that supports the creation of a book project which showcases an optimal and original balance between publication format and photographic content. It provides a financial contribution that aims to encourage artists to take risks and to innovate, in order for them to develop a suitable sophisticated publication format for their photography project.

The award grants the winner with a value ranging from a minimum of 10,000 CHF (co-publishing) to a maximum of 20,000 CHF (exclusive publisher) to produce a unique photography book. The book must be produced in consultation with Images Vevey as publisher or co-publisher.

Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026

The international photography award Grand Prix Images Vevey, worth 40,000 CHF is one of the largest and longest-standing prizes in Europe and attracts participants from all over the world for each competition. Winning projects are then exhibited at the Biennale Images Vevey the following year.

This prize grants the laureate the indivisible sum of 40,000 CHF for the development, achievement and presentation of a new photography project at the next Biennale Images Vevey in 2026.

Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District once again invites local artists to submit work to the 21st annual Bethesda Painting Awards. This juried art competition awards $14,000 in prizes to four selected winners. The Bethesda Painting Awards was established by Carol Trawick in 2005.

**Awards:**

Best in Show - $10,000

Second Place - $2,000

Third Place - $1,000

Young Artist\* - $1,000

  
**Exhibition** at Gallery B.

2025 Bethesda Painting Awards Competition

The Burke Prize is a biannual contemporary art prize for a new generation of artists working in a world of expanded media with a foundation in glass, fiber, clay, metal, or wood. Selected by a diverse and distinguished jury of curators, artists, and scholars through an open-call application process, the Burke Prize winner receives an unrestricted award of $50,000.

Inspired by the disciplines that shaped the American studio craft movement, the Burke Prize is named for Marian and Russell Burke, two longtime supporters of MAD and passionate collectors of craft. Established in 2018, the Burke Prize honors exceptional artists, 45 or under, working in the United States, whose highly accomplished work is conceptually rigorous, relevant, and pushes the boundaries of materials and creative processes.

Prize: $50,000

  
One Burke Prize artist will also be selected for the biannual Burke Residency at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. The Burke Residency artist will receive a one-month to five-week residency with all the benefits and opportunities awarded to artists selected for The Studio's Artist-in-Residence program.

  

The Burke Prize

Do you know any visionary changemaker using the arts and culture to tackle critical social issues? 

  
**The Creativity for Social Change Award 2025** invites nominations for individuals whose creative work is inspiring a new generation of creative thinkers and doers. This prestigious award recognizes those who dare to use creativity as a tool for lasting impact, spotlighting solutions to global challenges while raising awareness of critical social issues.

The Award consists of: 

  
* A monetary prize of **10,000€**
* The opportunity to join the global platform of the **Creativity Pioneers Fund**, unlocking access to additional resources, learning, and gathering opportunities
* A chance to co-curate a panel at the **Art for Tomorrow** conference, organized annually by the Democracy & Culture Foundation and held this year in Milan

Creativity for Social Change Award 2025

**£3,000 first prize for writers worldwide and stories on any topic up to 2,000 words!**

  
2024 marked ten years since we first launched the short story competition. With a £3,000 first prize (ten times higher than our first prize ten years ago) it has grown to become one of the UK’s leading short story competitions.

  
We are especially thrilled with the success of the Isobel Lodge Award, one of the specialist prizes in the competition, which every year brings new Scottish talent to the fore. The award is presented to the top story entered in the competition by an unpublished writer living in Scotland.

  
We welcome stories in all genres: literary, historic, crime, romance, gritty realism, contemporary, humour and more. The Write Mango Award is another specialist award within the competition that celebrates those bizarre, quirky stories that can sometimes leave us laughing out loud. The Write Mango winner receives £300 plus the fabulous mango award sculpture created by artist Fiona Maher.

  
The writers of at least twenty long-listed short stories are offered publication in our next anthology featuring a fabulous cover by Edinburgh-based artist Gordon Mitchell RSA. The top twenty includes the Isobel Lodge Award winner plus at least five of the top Write Mango stories.

If you live in Scotland and you or your immediate family receives any form of income support or universal credit you are entitled to free entry to the competition.

Publication is offered to authors of the top twenty stories in The Edinburgh Anthology, published annually.

  
Edinburg Short Story Awards:

* First Prize £3,000
* Second Prize £500
* Third Prize £250

  
The First Write Award - Open to unpublished writers worldwide

* £300 plus publication

  
The Write Mango Short Story Award - Open to writers worldwide

* Prize: £300 plus publication

  
The Isobel Lodge Award - Open to unpublished writers living in Scotland

* Prize: £750 plus publication

  
The Edinburgh Writing Awards Dinner - All the finalists for the short story competition are invited to the Edinburgh Writing Awards Dinner when the prize winners are announced. It is held each year at the Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh on the last Saturday in September.

  
A limited number of bursaries are available for talented, under-represented writers and illustrators through our bursary scheme. Bursaries may be awarded to entrants affected by low household income, all forms of discrimination, disability, who are full-time carers, ex-offenders or affected by any other barrier. No questions asked. In your application we ask you to submit the actual work you wish to enter for the competition - **_Applications for Short Story Bursaries are open now and until 10 December 2024_**.

Edinburgh Short Story Award 2025

The Frechener Ceramic Award can look back on a 50-year history and has become an established event in the calendar of German ceramics awards. The prize is awarded every three years and will take place for the 20th time in 2025\. The Award for contemporary ceramic art is organized by the Stiftung Keramion – Center for Modern and Historical Ceramics – and is open to both individual and associated artists, with no thematic or age restrictions. 

  
For collaborative works, it is required that the artists designate one person as the official representative of the collective, who will act as the contact person throughout all stages of the competition. Each participant can apply with up to three works, each not exceeding a size of 1.5 m³. All ceramic techniques are allowed; the works may also contain other materials but should predominantly consist of ceramics. Participants must confirm that the submitted works are their own, were created within the last two years, and have not been submitted to other competitions. 

The exhibition will be presented throughout the museum.

  
The competition includes the awarding of three cash prizes:

  
* Frechener Keramikpreis: 3000€
* Special prize: 2000€
* Recognition prize: 1000€

Frechen Ceramic Prize 2025 | FKP25

Entries for the 2025 prize launched on 9th June 2024\. The winning entry will be an 800-word review of a recently released book, film, album, concert, exhibition, ballet, play, TV show, online stream, performance art piece or anything else that could be covered by a newspaper’s arts review pages.

  
Anthony Burgess wrote for the _Observer_ for more than thirty years, and this prize celebrates his connection with the newspaper. He had a wide range of interests, so there is no restriction on the art form featured in your review.

  
Maybe you’re a journalist, critic or blogger – or none of those. All we ask is you impress us with your best work. Your entry should be a previously unpublished review of up to 800 words on new work in the arts. The winning piece could be about an album, book, concert, exhibition, film, live stream, social media entertainment, or television show, or anything else that offers the opportunity to write a lively and thoughtful piece. We define “new work” in the arts as anything that has happened since 1st January 2024, although some flexibility with that date is fine. The arts world has changed beyond recognition since last year, and we expect to see some entries focusing on the online world of lockdown entertainment.

 The entry fee is usually £15, but we also offer a free-entry scheme for entrants on low incomes.

– a sum of £3000 to one winner

– a sum of £500 to two runners-up.

  
– Publication opportunities for the winning pieces, or another suitable piece, in the _Observer_. Publication will be at the discretion of the editor of the _Observer_.

  
– Short-listed entrants may be invited to attend an evening prize-giving ceremony in May 2025\. The winner will be announced at this event. Short-listed entrants will be notified by email or telephone and asked to confirm attendance at the ceremony. In cases where short-listed entrants are unable to attend the ceremony, they will be invited to send a representative (a friend or relative) on their behalf; if a representative is unable to attend, short-listed entrants will be asked to submit a short written statement to be read out at the ceremony should they win.

the observer / anthony burgess prize for arts journalism

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